Washington Post, December 5, 2016, by Catherine Rampell. “Around the world, the populist, ethnonationalist far right is gaining vote share — in some cases (ahem) even winning elections. Also around the world, political observers are shocked — shocked! — that such anti-democratic impulses are gaining ground. But an important new...

Free Exchange, November 22, 2016, by R.A. “Institutions are organisations or patterns of behaviour built by societies to help solve social or economic problems which the law or private markets cannot fully address. Economists have not entirely ignored them. […] Yet for many of the most important questions within economics,...

BloombergView, November 21, 2016, by Mark Whitehouse. “Do we have the 2008 financial crisis to thank for Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president? More than a century of human experience suggests it’s a real possibility. Trump’s surprise victory has prompted a lot of worrying about the wave of antiestablishment — and...

CNBC, November 23, 2016, by Alex Rosenberg. “A string of surprising political victories for those espousing right-wing policies may in part be understood as a reaction to the recent financial crisis, according to a set of German economists. “The data show us that this is the tendency — voters go...